1. Kiln

China's ceramics have a production history of thousands of years. The kiln is the core of the entire ceramic production, but the fuel problem has been difficult to solve, so the plan to modify the kiln began.

Around 1980, the kiln was the core of the entire ceramic production, mainly batch kiln, steamed bun kiln and dragon kiln.

At the same time, it also faced the problem of fuel, so the kiln was renovated and the process of localization began.

In the 90s of the 20th century, the localization of kilns was in progress, and the roller kiln changed from the original heavy oil to diesel oil, and from semi-flame kiln to open flame kiln, and the energy consumption was further reduced.

Among them, ball mills and spray dryers are the representatives of the equipment developed during this period.

(1) Large size (large) ball mill:

In 1985, Li Yuguang and others of Shiwan Ceramic Machinery Manufacturer developed and produced a 14-ton wet ball mill, which was characterized by the addition of a starting positioning device.

In the 90s of the 20th century, ball mills set off a boom in the national ceramic industry.

(2) Spray dryer:

In the 80s of the 20th century, the first 2000 domestic spray dryer was installed in Jianguo Ceramics Factory, and the practical effect showed that the technical performance indicators were good, and then the drawings of 2500, 1500 and other models were designed, forming a series of domestic pressure spray dryer products.

2. Edge grinding machine, polishing machine

In the early 90s of the 20th century, ceramic enterprises imported a large number of foreign equipment such as presses, kilns, edge grinding machines and polishing machines, and some domestic pottery factories (mainly Koda) began to imitate the production of imported ceramic machine equipment, so this period was born edging machines and polishing machines.

3. Printing machine

Ceramic printing machine is a very important machine in the ceramic production process, and the development of ceramic history is inseparable from the upgrading of ceramic printing machine.

In 1996, China began to imitate OMIS chain machines.

In 1998, the imported belt printing machine entered the domestic market, and its advantages of fast speed, accurate positioning and less damage were obvious than the chain printing machine.

In 1999, began to develop belt printing machines. In June of the same year, the "belt type flat printing machine" was developed, which has the characteristics of fast speed, accurate positioning and less damage, and improves the output.

After 2000, the belt drive screen printing machine appeared, which met the equipment needs of the rapidly expanding domestic large-size floor tile market above 600mm, and greatly improved the printing quality of large-size products.

4. Cloth system

After more than ten years of development, the cloth industry has become a pivotal ceramic equipment industry, and the press cloth system is the key to the production of new decors of polished bricks.

It has played a significant role in the development of a series of new products such as large-particle polished bricks, ultra-fine powder polished bricks, and micronized color polished bricks.

In the early days, mainly to imitate foreign products, learn from foreign multi-tube fabric, roller magic color cloth, positive micronized secondary cloth and other technologies, imported polished brick cloth machine equipment accounted for the majority.

After 2003, domestic cloth machines began to embark on the road of independent innovation, improving the replacement of positive micro powder, reverse playing micro powder cloth technology and developing multi-functional, modular roller cloth technology.

From 2003 to 2009, cloth technology declined, and was later replaced by inkjet technology.

5. Inkjet machine and inkjet technology

With the continuous innovation of inkjet technology, the development of domestic ceramic machine equipment is becoming more and more mature, occupying a pivotal position at home and abroad, and the degree of use of inkjet machine has been very popular.

After ten years of technological maturity and explosive development in the past five years, ceramic inkjet machines have been popularized at home and abroad at an unprecedented speed.

In 2009, the inkjet machine was launched in China, which has outstanding advantages over screen printing and solves many shortcomings of screen printing, such as rich decors, less color difference, good production repeatability and so on.

In 2015, Dow Technology successfully developed a 3D smear ink, which broke through the previous production process and showed a unique advantage: more vivid hair color and more realistic texture